“Degas, more than any other Realist, looked upon the photograph not merely as a means of documentation, but rather as an inspiration: it evoked the spirit of his own imagery of the spontaneous, the fragmentary and the immediate. Thus, in… — Linda Nochlin Copy Share
“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.” — Linda Nochlin Copy Share Image
“Degas, more than any other Realist, looked upon the photograph not merely as a means of documentation, but rather as an inspiration: it evoked the spirit of his own imagery of the spontaneous, the fragmentary and the immediate. Thus, in a certain sense, critics of Realism were quite correct to equate the objective, detached, scientific mode of photography, and its… — Linda Nochlin Copy Share
“Courbet’s Meeting[1], for example, was clearly based on a prototype in popular imagery [2]: yet Courbet observed the countryside around Montpellier with scrupulous attention… — Linda Nochlin Copy Share Image
“The acceptance of woman as object of the desiring male gaze in the visual arts is so universal that for a woman to question… — Linda Nochlin Copy Share Image
![“Courbet’s Meeting[1], for example, was clearly based on a prototype in popular imagery [2]: yet Courbet observed the countryside around Montpellier with scrupulous attention to its peculiarities and he recorded the local flora, the bright clear atmosphere of the Midi, as well as the appearance of…” quote by Linda Nochlin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/297/linda-nochlin-70990_quote_courbet-s-meeting-1-for-example-was-clea_2687724.jpg)
